Improvement in locking-caps for bottles



LTo all whom ifi/may con-cern rect descriptionfof (the same.

JAM-Es T. tionen, or NEW Yoan,y N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 107,'778, dated September 2'?, 1870; antedated September 26, 1870.

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i The hedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part o! the same Pe it kno-wn that I, JAMES T. Houernof the city andlState of New York, havenvented and made a newand useful Improvement in .Locks for Bottle- Stoppersand.,th`e following is declared to he a cor- Various devices have been made for securing bottles containingfdiquids, so that the same could not be easily opened. Stands have been provided with caps to incluse thestoppers, said caps being locked down to place after the b'ottle has been set into the stand. In other instances the said cap, to cover'the stopper, has been provided .withmovable rings, forming a coinbination or dial-lock.

In these instances the .stopper of the bottle' has been a separate article, and has had to be removed from the bottle after the cap was taken oii. My improvement is made with reference to locking the stopper' itself to place; and

My inveutionconsists in a socket att-achcdtojthe neck of the bottle and carrying movable notched rings, in combination with a stopper, to `the bottle, upon which are projcctinglugs to be heldhy the said rings.

Figure 1 is a 'vertical section ofthe stopper and the socket upon the bottle. f i Y V Figure 2-is anelevationof the stopper detached.

Figure 3 i's a plan 'of the locking rings.`

The socket a is formed with a groove, receiving the neck b ofthe bottle or decanter, the' parts being attached together by plaster lof Paris,'orother material.

The socket @has a rim or flange, 2, upon the circumferenoe of which divisions and letters or numbers are placed,'and above this rin-1.2 are the combination-rings d and e, also divided upon their periph' cries in a similar manner, and each of these rings has lan inward ange thats notched in one or more places,

as shown at s, in fig. 3.

I have shown three notches, the retaining-ring Itv also similarly notched. The ring h is held in place by the screws l.

and a ange, 5, that sits over the ring h.

Upon the cylindrical portion of the stopper k are4 the lugs fi t', in the proper position for passing through the notchess; hence lthe stopper is secured by being turned after it has been entered, and by turningthe rings'd and c.

When the stopper' is to be removed the parts are to be turned so that the notches s and lugs t are on line, and this is done by the letters or numbers ou 2, d and e indicating the designated combination.

It' desired, theglass neck-of the bottle may extend up within the hollow stopper, as shown by dotted lines in g. l, to facilitate pouring out the liquid.

The 'stopper 7c, formed with the cylinder 4, ange 5,"and1ugsi, in combination with" thesocket a fastened upon the bottle, and the combination-rings l e, as and for the purposes specied.

Signed this .7th day of Decemberl89. Y

. JAMES T. HOUGH. Witnesses:

Crus. H. SMITH, GEO. T. PLNCKNEY 

